Literature in the Modern World: Critical Essays and Documents - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0198710372 ISBN 13: 9780198710370

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1991

Synopsis

A unique combination of English, European, feminist, and "New Writing" essays on literary studies from the 1920s to the 1980s, this book sheds new light on the main theoretical issues involved in the study of modern literary texts. The book includes the views of leading critics and theorists such as Sandra M. Gilbert, Susan Gubar, Frank Kermode, Edward Said, and Lionel Trilling, as well as such renowned writers as W.H. Auden, Umberto Eco, Seamus Heaney, Czeslaw Milosz, and Virginia Woolf. Focusing on major critical topics--genre, interpretation, history and criticism, gender, and race--Literature in the Modern World provides a critical awareness of the debates likely to dominate future discussions of literature.

About this title

About the Author:

Dennis Walder, Senior Lecturer in Literature, Open University.

Review:

"A useful collection of critical essays about the study of modern literature in English."--Virginia Quarterly Review

"An intelligent and useful sampling of recent reflections on literature. A good text for introductory courses at either the undergraduate or graduate level."--Steven Rendall, University of Oregon

"Fills a need that has long been felt by teachers of courses in criticism and theory: an introductory selection of readings in, and a clear schematization of, the key debates in the discipline at present."--D.G. Myers, Texas A&M University

"An excellent selection of materials."--Volek Emil, Arizona State University

"A very useful text."--Gregory W. Bredbeck, University of California, Riverside

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0198710372
• ISBN 13: 9780198710370
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400
• Editor: Walder Dennis